A Weird, Weird World
Fifty years ago, Louis Armstrong had a big hit singing “What A Wonderful World.” That song doesn’t characterize the world we live in. Susan Riley writes: Anyone looking for evidence…
The Carbon Tax
The Carbon Tax: In Memorium
Max Fawcett writes that the carbon tax is dead: How did the Trudeau government’s signature climate policy turn into a political albatross? As Ernest Hemingway might say: gradually, then suddenly.…
Carbon Folly
Politicians are chipping away at the carbon tax. Pierre Poilievre wants to “axe the tax” entirely. The situation upsets former environment minister Catherine McKenna. She writes: Life is full of…
Another Self Inflicted Wound
The cost of living is on everyone’s mind these days. In an effort to make things a little easier, the Trudeau government decided to remove the tax on home heating…
We’ve Been Here Before
Tom Walkom writes that the fight over the carbon tax echoes the furor over the metrification of Canada: Nearly five decades ago, discontented Tories targeted another Trudeau government on another…
Quebec Goes Its Own Way
If Andrew Scheer was planning on making inroads in Quebec, Chantal Hebert writes, his opposition to a carbon tax has doomed his efforts: In Quebec, the anti-carbon pricing platform Scheer…
Is History Repeating Itself?
The federal government’s plan to deal with climate change is running into stiff head winds — partly because many Canadians don’t believe the science. Andrew Coyne writes: Fully 40 per…